Love Is Enough, Or The Freeing Pharamond: A Morality.
A fine, clean crisp copy, one of only two Kelmscott Press books printed in three colours.
Written by William Morris. The Kelmscott Press, Upper Mall, Hammersmith, 1897, printed in red and black with some initials in blue, wood-engraved frontispiece and one plate by W. H. Hooper after designs by Edward Burne-Jones, one of 300 copies on paper. 29.6 x 21.8 x 1.5 cm; pp. [8] + 92. Troy type (most stage directions in chaucer type) on Batchelor hand-made paper with the perch watermark, ornamental woodcut borders, and numerous woodcut initials; original full limp vellum; with gold silk ties, title gilt on spine.
Love is Enough, a play written by William Morris after the manner of mediaeval morality plays, is based on the theme that love is more important and valuable than power or wealth. Morris completed the play in 1872 during the five-year period when he created his most accomplished illuminated manuscripts.
A fine, clean crisp copy, one of only two Kelmscott Press books printed in three colours (the other being Laudes Beatae Mariae Virginis, 1896)
[Peterson A52; Tomkinson 52]

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